Although the incidence rates of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remain low in Jordan and the Middle East as a whole, recent studies have shown that the rate of new infections has increased by 52 percent in the region ...

In the past 30 years, the average age of biomedical researchers has steadily increased. The average age of an investigator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) rose from 39 to 51 between 1980 and 2008. The aging of ...

The crude from Canadian oil sands provides enormous security and economic advantages to the United States, but the carbon dioxide emitted during its extraction and refinement is about double that of most conventional crudes. ...

This paper examines the idea of increasing the capacity of the trans-Saudi pipeline system by using second-generation drag reduction agent (DRA) technology, so that in the event of a Strait of Hormuz (SoH) closure[1], most ...

With their roots in Paulo Freire’s writing on pedagogy, participatory processes have now become adapted for use in a broad range of applications within national and international health development work. Advocates claim ...

The study of terrorism strives to identify logic and patterns in a phenomenon that is in constant flux. Weapons, tactics, recruitment, financing, and other elements are fluid as they evolve and adapt to current conditions ...

We investigate the relationship between the Japan-Korea Marker (JKM) price of LNG, the price of Brent oil, and spot prices of fuel oil and thermal coal imported into Japan, South Korea, China, and Taiwan. We are especially ...

About 300,000 cardiac arrests occur outside of hospitals in the United States each year; most are fatal. Studies have shown that a small but significant percentage of cardiac arrests appear to be triggered by exposure to ...

Background: Asthma is a serious chronic disease with physical, academic, and economic consequences that affected more than 7 million children in 2010.[1] The physical consequences of asthma are estimated to have caused ...